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Microsoft tries for funny video this time.

November 8th, 2010 · 12:20 am

Microsoft’s advertising is all over the place. From I’m a PC to random attempts at being funny, the software giant can’t quite pin down a voice. Below, is Microsoft’s new video ad for it’s mobile initiative: Jogging Really | New Windows Phone 7 Official Ad. Jogging Really | New Windows Phone 7 Official Ad

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Apple Online Store Opens In China

October 27th, 2010 · 8:58 pm

Apple has opened the Online Apple Store in China (apple.com.cn), which will offer free shipping, free personalized engraving on any iPod® or iPad and custom configuration for new Macs. The launch of the new store is perfectly timed for the upcoming holiday seasons. In addition, Apple’s  App Store is now available in Simplified Chinese and [...]

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From a year ago, Yahoo profits nearly double

October 20th, 2010 · 4:05 pm

Yahoo’s net income has nearly doubled from a year ago. The company’s current revenue is $396 million up from $186 million. The tremendous growth in revenue was attributed to the HotJobs website. Carol A. Bartz was hired as CEO to help the company out of a period of stagnation, and it appears to be working. [...]

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Something Firefox Cannot Do

October 11th, 2010 · 2:14 am

Something Firefox just cannot do.

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FBI demands that Wikipedia remove it’s shield

August 6th, 2010 · 5:42 am

The Federal Bureau of Investigation Office of General Counsel (GLU) sent a letter to Wikimedia Foundation (the parent company of Wikipedia) ordering them to remove the FBI shield from it’s pages (“Unathorized posting of the FBI Seal”) and threatening litigation. The image in question is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US-FBI- ShadedSeal.svg. The letter states that “the site itself notes, [...]

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Consumer Reports Does Not Recommend iPhone 4

July 13th, 2010 · 7:53 am

Consumer Reports did a study on Apple’s new iPhone 4 and found that the antenna problem along the side bars of the device significantly effects the ability to maintain a signal and make phone calls. By holding the iPhone a certain way (as demonstrated in the video below), the iPhone will experience a reduced signal [...]

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Free Wifi With Your Coffee

July 2nd, 2010 · 7:04 am

Starbucks has finally begun to offer free wifi. The no-charge, limitation-free and no-registration wifi initiative will take place in both the US and in Canada. Starbucks has been working on it’s own network, called Starbucks Digital Network, in partnership with Yahoo!. The idea of the network will be to offer a seamless entertainment service for [...]

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Don’t hold your iPhone 4 that way!

June 29th, 2010 · 1:48 am

Apple released the iPhone 4 with a potentially critical flaw. If you hold the iPhone a certain way, the device will lose it’s signal, as the antennas are placed on the left and right side of the device. The flaw is especially bothersome for left-handed users. Apple’s response will not go in the textbooks for [...]

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Multi-domain support added to Google Apps

June 24th, 2010 · 7:57 am

A great new feature was added to Google Apps–Google’s business fleet of web-based office software. Google Apps now supports multiple domains. Prior to this update, if you owned multiple web domains, you would need to have several Google Apps accounts–one for each. As part of the upgrade, there is a new admin control which gives [...]

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Facebook Revenue Just Shy Of 800 Million

June 19th, 2010 · 6:47 pm

Facebook’s 2009 revenue was almost 800 million, according to a report by Reuters. Facebook also turned part of that revenue into solid net profit. This revenue is higher than previous estimates of 500 million. “They are downplaying their performance…” stated one Reuters source. If Facebook is heading towards an IPO, than they would be better [...]

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